Rubbin' is NOT Racing.
Current NASCAR
A little rubbin' of a different sort at the racetrack courtesy of Richmond's Terrible Tommy!
A little rubbin' of a different sort at the racetrack courtesy of Richmond's Terrible Tommy!
The late Richie Evans would tell you that Geoff did plenty of rubbin' in the modifieds, too. I was at this Martinsville race when Evans won after Bodine's best rubbin' effort.
Bodine said, "I didnt want to wreck him, just get him sideways and pass him. That was the wrong thought. I should have spun him out."
So, please don't tell me Geoff Bodine didn't believe rubbin' is racing. I watched him wreck other drivers in both modified and Late Model Sportsman.
You obviously watched a different Geoff Bodine than the one who came south and raced at Southside Speedway and South Boston in Virginia in the Emanuel Zervakis #99 White Tornado Late Model Sportsman. I don't think you'd ever convince Sam Ard that Geoff didn't believe rubbin' is racing as in this photo of Geoff rubbin' Sam at SoBo.
Oh, I know that, Bill... and agree.... was just having fun with the story headline.
Thank goodness nobody ever told ole Sonny Hutchins & Ray Hendrick or Sam Ard & Geoff Bodine or Richard Petty & Bobby Allison or Mutt Powell & Al Grinnan that "Rubbin' is NOT Racing" or I would have missed some awesome action during my lifetime.
Billy, I'm not sure what your problem is. The video link is directly from this morning's Richmond Time-Dispatch newspaper and works without a hitch for me. Here's an alternate video showing pretty much the same thing:
This Saturday night while NASCAR Cup cars are racing in Richmond, the Virginia Tech Hokies and Tennessee Vols will compete in college football at Bristol Motor Speedway. The link below is a time lapse video of the transformation from racetrack to football stadium:
http://video.timesdispatch.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=91348&ndn.siteSection=timesdispatch_hom_non_fro&ndn.videoId=31365182&freewheel=91348&sitesection=timesdispatch_hom_non_fro&vid=31365182
Thank you, Tim. I can only imagine being at Darlington in 1957 and those other early years. I am envious.